quite entertaining, if still Hollywood

Rating: 8/10 (13 July 2005)

I hit a sneak preview of this movie, and was pleasantly surprised to find that this movie, while being a typical Hollywood movie in many respects (predictable, unrealistic in many respects), I found it very entertaining, and thought they knew they were being unrealistic in parts, and sort of made fun of themselves, which made it OK. The general story was pretty cool as well, and reasonably well done. Definitely worth a see. I'm a big science fiction fan, and while the science was far from perfect, they weren't pretending to try to make a super realistic (read hard-science fiction) movie, so it worked out alright. I'm pretty picky when it comes to science fiction (I walked out of AI, e.g. -- the first 3 minutes of the movie promised a movie that the rest didn't even attempt to deliver).